Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.